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GX-Alan (78)   May 24, 2007 - 01:26 pm

It's partly marketing -- the cool part is that it's with the 3GHz clock speed now. » Login to reply to this

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JLB (89)   May 07, 2007 - 03:36 pm

Most of the stuff people post here is crap, but I like your thought process there Dan. You should post here more often. » Login to reply to this

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GX-Alan (78)   May 07, 2007 - 09:55 am

The "Xeon I4" is virtually equivalent to the Core 2 Quad. As before, if you're not memory bandwidth limited, the extra 4 cores improves performance. If you're memory bandwidth limited though, you cannot maximize the potential of those additional processing units. » Login to reply to this

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CAG-Spitfire (489)   May 07, 2007 - 10:24 am

I believe Company of Heroes is dual core capable... ...And how exactly is Quake4 not mainstream? Maybe it's not the most popular, but it's not some sort of underground Indie game. By what criteria do you define mainstream? » Login to reply to this

stalker_loner (257)     May 07, 2007 - 08:04 am

Damn that is some good performance, but not worth the money that the processors would cost. Most games today are dual-core enhanced, even if they don't advertise it as a feature. I highly believe Supreme Commander is dual-core featured, but I don't really know any others. Obviously a lot of games benefit from more cores, such as Far Cry or F.E.A.R. and even STALKER I'm sure. And for the future, even though you said mainstream, I read somewhere that Crysis recommended setup includes a dual-core proc. It's just standard now. » Login to reply to this  dbd (22)   May 07, 2007 - 09:09 am And I think I read that Alan Wake is going to need a quad core system to run at it's best. Also, BioShock is going to be taking much advantage of Quad core processors. It can't be that long (a year or two) when games start needing 8 cores to look their best. I bet HL2: Episode 3 will have some fancy stuff going on to take advantage of 8 cores, seeing as their multi-core upgrade to the source engine is built to pretty much take advantage of as many cores as you have. They just have to find something to use all that crazy power for :) » Login to reply to this  DanTheMathlete (235)    May 07, 2007 - 12:12 pm | Edited on May 07, 2007 - 12:23 pm » Endless possibilities There are so many great applicaitons for that kind of computing power. Real physics, not rag doll. Cloths that are not just a skin attached at nodes on a wire frame. Water movement, flames, random elements that behave properly. Wind blowing leaves across your characters feet. Doppler sound effects. Light refraction and deflection. Pressure and temperature characteristics. Consider this, your online buddy takes a rpg, his grenades cook off from the heat and you hear the shrapnel as it whips by your character (left to right). You look down past the now smoldering plant life (smoke wafting in the breeze) and see a randomly generated bloody tear in your kevlar vest. All of this is governed by relatively simple partial differential equations that need serious computational horse power to have hope of being integrated, in real time, into a video game. For the first time it might actually be possible. » Login to reply to this  stalker_loner (257)     May 07, 2007 - 10:10 am I did indeed hear that Alan Wake is going to be optimized for quad-core, which is very good thing, since the Q6700 should have no prob blasting through it. Hopefully it will help with the CPU limited GPU problem. » Login to reply to this

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